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...once loyal lieutenant has not skulked away in ignominy. In fact, Paxon's star is rising again, thanks to an aggressive seduction campaign by his fellow House Republicans. As Gingrich has surely noticed, the man who would succeed him has been busy shuttling around the country, raising money for his colleagues and storing away political IOUs for the moment the post-Newt era arrives. Gingrich's loyalists are feigning indifference in public while fuming in private. "Paxon betrayed his own mentor," snipes one. "Is that the kind of leader we want...
...film's acting is generally above average; unfortunately, that's not quite enough to make things work in a film so character-oriented as Bent. Owen's Max is conventionally handsome and is good at looking worried, but he doesn't quite succeed in letting us see into his inner world. It doesn't help that the chemistry between him and his first lover, Rudy, is almost nonexistent. Webber as Rudy exaggerates the younger man's submissiveness to the point that the character becomes almost infantile--while we sympathize with his helplessness, he's petulant enough to alienate the audience...
...disabled people culminated in the Americans with Disabilities Act, which became law in 1990, the same year that the SDRC was formed. As a result, many students with disabilities who once would have been resigned to "special schools" are now finding arrangements that allow them to attend, and succeed, in regular secondary schools...
Murphy said he believed the program's targeting of underage drinking will succeed where similar efforts have failed, because the program is based on a partnership between police, package stores and manufactures...
Even here at fair Harvard, essentially a vast secular temple to success, there exists a certain amount of resentment toward those who succeed. An article which appeared several weeks ago in this newspaper about the current crop of Rhodes and Marshall scholarship nominees began by jokingly noting that the students who had been nominated were finally beginning to reap the rewards of "staying home all those Saturday nights." While it was nothing more than a mild and probably fairly accurate gibe, this line is indicative of a certain resentful "Yeah, they got nominated, but at least they have no social...